"If you were expecting these figures to show Demand Media's eHow site to have been harmed – surprise! Two studies show eHow actually gained. I'm still crunching through some of the figures, but the biggest 'content farm' type brand that seems to have suffered are Associated Content."

"While we've come a long way for a pre-release product, we know that we have a lot of work left to do to ensure that our developers can build and distribute apps without any hindering costs or painful download processes."

"You win. I concede defeat. I no longer want to attempt developing an app for the Playbook. Are you happy now? Surely you must be. Considering how terribly designed the entire process is, from the registration right through to loading an app into the simulator, I can only assume that you are trying to drive developers away by inconveniencing them as much as humanly possible. Just in case you've forgotten, let me give you a little recap of the process you've put together."

Remind you of anything? (See ACS:Law and speculative invoicing): "Thousands of unnamed 'John Does' in P2P file sharing lawsuits filed in California, Washington DC, Texas, and West Virginia have been severed, effectively dismissing over 40,000 defendants. The plaintiffs in these cases must now re-file against almost all of the Does individually rather than suing them en mass. These rulings may have a significant impact on the copyright trolls' business model, which relies on being able to sue thousands of Does at once with a minimum of administrative expense."

"'Back in late 1995 early '96, when we were at our peak, we were literally hours away from buying Apple for about $5 to $6 a share,' said Zander, who had built Sun's software business into a powerhouse and was rewarded with promotion to CEO by his mentor, McNealy. "'Honest to gosh, I was at an analysts' meeting in San Diego on a Tuesday morning and was getting ready to announce that we were going to buy Apple. I don't know what we were going to do with it, but we were going to buy it. (Apple) had no CEO at the time, Steve (Jobs) wasn't there, but we didn't get it. Why didn't we buy it?' "'We wanted to do it,' McNealy said. 'There was an investment banker on the Apple side, an absolute disaster, and he basically blocked it. He put so many terms into the deal that we couldn't afford to go do it.' '"Just think, that if that night had been different, I don't know what would have happened,' Zander said." Here's a guess: the same as happened to Sun. A vanishing.

"Our goal is simple: to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible. This requires constant tuning of our algorithms, as new content – both good and bad – comes online all the time. "Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very few people notice them. But in the last day or so we launched a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking – a change that noticeably impacts 11.8% of our queries – and we wanted to let people know what's going on. This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites – sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites – sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on." So Google News results won't show up so high anymore?

"Apple and Intel have introduced a new notebook connection technology called Thunderbolt that will hopefully replace all the other cables coming out of your laptop. However, it appears to share the same security flaw as some of these older technologies: attaching a hostile device can break into your computer. A hacker can walk up to your laptop while you are not looking, connect a device for a few seconds, disconnect it and walk away with your data (such as passwords). This works even when your laptop is "locked" with the password screen."

"Google hasn't made much headway in its attempt to get people to switch from Microsoft Office to Google Docs, but its new free tool, Google Cloud Connect, could prove to be a Trojan Horse to get people to eventually make the switch. "I've given Google Cloud Connect a run-through, and found it a nifty add-in for Office 2003, 2007, and 2010. It works from directly in Office, and serves a dual purpose, depending on how you plan to use it. If you're using it by yourself, it's a great way to save your Office documents to Google Docs, while also saving them to your local PC. That way, they're automatically backed up for you. In addition, you'll be able to access them from anywhere, on any Internet-connected PC. You'll be able to edit them, as well as read them, using Google Docs." Very dangerous for Microsoft if this gets traction: it offers the collaboration of Office 10 but without the cost.